A new twist on the age-old girdle, these sweat-and-slim weight loss belts can actually cause health problems.

When they only eat once a day, people tend to eat way more than usual, which leads to weight gain.

Pregnant and postpartum women experiencing weight-related stigma are at risk for depressive symptoms, unhealthy eating behaviors, and stress.

A new study helps explain why keeping a long gap between dinner and breakfast can help obese people lose weight.

Excess belly fat is apparently as dangerous as overall obesity.

A change in how people view food could heal disordered eating and de-prioritize getting skinny.

Hormones and social norms affect women's post-pregnancy weight loss.

Surprisingly, this is one fad that has (some) evidence to back it up.

Not really worth it, then.

New research explains a primary factor for obesity -- and suggests a way to combat it.

Nutrition psychology explores attitudes toward food and eating, and how they affect our mental and physical health.

Women have certain genetic twists that aren't found in men.

A review of studies related to obesity and sugar has found specifically reducing fructose (as in high fructose corn syrup) intake results in dramatic improvements to metabolism in as little as two weeks, much faster than it it takes for 

A new study has shot to hell all our comfort and smugness in consuming ‘diet’ and ‘lite’ foods that use artificial sweetners instead of sugar. Published in the journal Cell Metabolism, researchers have found that artificial sweeteners, when combined with a low-carb 

I get tons of questions online about postpartum weight loss: How to lose belly fat after having a baby? What kind of post-pregnancy diet will help with extreme weight loss? How to reduce weight after delivery? and How to achieve 

All of us want to change something about ourselves – we want to be more organized, to lose weight, to Carpe Diem more often in team meetings, to procrastinate less, or to be more even-tempered. We want to be better 

First there was the 7-minute workout; then there was the 4-minute workout; now, there is the 1-minute workout. One minute? Seriously? Seriously, says science. These super-short workouts are founded upon the theory of high intensity interval training, which itself is not 

Google ‘how to lose weight’ and you’ll come up with thousands of hits; the goal might be the one of the few true commonalities of the human race (right behind love of Coca-Cola — which perhaps explains a lot —